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January is like theatre's "in like a lamb, out like a lion" month, as everyone recovers from they heyday of December holiday shows and many theatres go dark. By then end of the month, all the stages are full again with new productions.
I'm calling this the "Jerry Montoya Edition" because Jerry, B Street Theatre's Associate Producer, has a new show opening this weekend for B Street's Family Series, The Conductor: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. He also wrote Nostros, La Gente which is one of eight plays by Sacramento playwrights in City Theatre's Old City Cemetary Plays, a festival of new works all set in Sacramento's Old City Cemetary. I saw one evening of this show last week (each performance is a four-play set "A" or "B" of the eight plays in the project). It's a really cool project, well produced by City Theatre who should be applauded for the efforts to produce new, local work in town.
Jerry must be one of the most prolific playwrights in the region, having written many scripts for B Street's Family Series (his Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorites). He has scripts published by Playscripts including an adaptation of Secret Garden that is pretty widely produced and was the first children's show playing at B Street when I started there. With Nostros, La Gente he now has two shorter works that he may develop into full length plays, the other being A Murder of Crowe (pictured left) which was a ten-minute play detailing some of the stories behind the Charles Manson murders. Catch one of Jerry's shows (details below) while they're running, and you can catch Jerry online at JerryRMontoya.com and on twitter @jermontoya.
Shows to see:
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Congrats to the whole cast - my friends David Pierini, Greg Alexander, and Sylvia Kwan; Carolyn Howarth who I've seen in tons of stuff but have never met, and Mayette Villanueva who's new to me. And of course, Joe Styron, who got great reviews ("excellently understated" and "endearing") and is my good friend, housemate and collaborator on Sacramentjoe. Joe's been at B Street for two and a half years, first as an intern then as an Artistic Associate. He's done roles in 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' & 'Rumpelstiltskin' and performed as an understudy for half a dozen roles, more than anyone else at B Street in the last few years. It's great to see him get a role like this and really shine in it. Congrats, Joe... maybe I'll read that sketch you sent me a year ago...
[More ramblings about theatre after the cut]
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This edition is as much "here's what's on my Sacramento theatre to-do list" as it is out-and-out recommendations:
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That's Anthropologie (-ie) project, not Anthropology. For a class I just finished as part of my MBA program at Sac State, my team conducted a brand audit on Anthropologie stores. I thought I'd post a blog entry about it, especially since quite a few of my friends on Facebook took the quick survey we created. We ended up with 123 responses. The survey was just a quick one set up on Google Docs to assess brand awareness, and is not statistically significant (just interesting). Results and my commentary after the cut...
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